Fender.



Patented May 20, I902.

No. 700,7I6.

A. BECK. FENDER. .(Application filed Sept. 16, 1901.)

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ALEXANDER BECK, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,716, dated May 20, 1902 Application filed September 16,1901. Serial No- 75,593. (No model.) I

To all whom, it ma concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BECK, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have made a certain new and usefullmprovementin Fenders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appert'ains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to fenders for use on street and other railway cars, locomotives, automobiles, &c., for the protection thereof and of pedestrians and live stock from injury therefrom.

The object of the invention is to provide a fender which will more certainly remove such obstacles from the track without more than the least possible injury and, failing therein, to catch and'hold them until the conveyance can be stopped.

The'invention consists of the device hereinafter described substantially as shownin the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the front part of a locomotive with this invention attached. Fig. 2 is a like view of samev attached to a street-car. Fig. 3 is a tached. Fig. 4 is a vertical central section thereof. Fig. 5 is a side view of a locomotive, showing an amplified construction of wheel and a slightly-modified means of attaching same. Fig. 6 is a front elevation thereof.

In the figures like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

A is a wheel which is provided-with a rubber tire c or one of alike elastic material and is mounted in a horizontal plane at the proper distance above the railway in such a manner as to be freely rotatable on its own axis.

Bis a conical apron of screen-cloth or bars superposed upon the wheelin such a manner as to form a protection therefor and to adapt it to catch and hold any obstacle which might be thrown upon it, said screen being secured to and rotatable with the wheel A.

In the construction shown the wheel A is dition of a common wing-fender at each side plan of the device de-.

rotatably mounted between bars 0 and D, secured to some suitable part of the conveyance to which it is desired to attach the fender,

and these bars carry between their free ends a shaft 0, on which is journaled, so as to be freely rotatable, the hollow hub a of the wheel. It is plain that many forms of construction for journaling the wheel may be employed. Figs. 5 and 6 show, as aforesaid, a modified form of attachment, differing, however, only in the fact that the bar D extends to the saddle which carries the forward end of the boiler. These figures also show the adof the rotatable apron. It is plain that when an obstruction is struck by the soft edge of this. wheel A said wheel will rotate on its axis in one direction or the other and so force the said obstruction toward and across the rail.

If this action for any incidental reason should not take place, the obstruction will fall upon the apron and by striking it also cause the rotation of the wheel and deposit the obstruc-- tion outside the railway. In case neither of these actions could .take place it is plain that this device will operate aft-er the manner of an ordinary fender, the wheel rotating, however, just as soon as the conditions will permit, and so, even in that case, ultimately forcing the obstruction off of the railway.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a fender, a wheel and means for mounting same rotatably on the front of the conveyance near the roadway, in combination with a conical apron above said Wheel and in operative relation thereto.

2. In a fender, a wheelprovided with a hub abnormally long on one end, a conical apron secured by its lower edge to said wheel and by its upper end to said hub near its distal end and means for rotatably mounting said wheel on the front of the conveyance and just above the roadway.

In testimonywhereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

ALEXANDER BECK.

Witnesses:

A. P. W001), S. M. Woon. 

